A Measure of Dichotomous Category Bias in Free Listing Tasks'

Robbins, Michael C.; Nolan, Justin M.

doi:10.1177/1525822x970090030501

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“…The salience of a plant listed by respondents refers to its psychological prominence (Quinlan et al 2002), and can be calculated through free-listing interviews (Bernard 1995) that combine the frequency of plant citation with the order of citation (Robbins & Nolan 1997). Salience relies on the fact that: a) the respondents tend to mention the most culturally important items first in a list, and b) the best-known plants are usually listed more frequently (Trotter & Logan 1986;Quinlan et al 2002).…”

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Ethnobotany of rural people from the boundaries of Carlos Botelho State Park, São Paulo State, Brazil

2006

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RESUMO -(Etnobotânica de uma população rural próxima do Parque Estadual Carlos Botelho, SP, Brasil). Neste estudo, nós descrevemos e analisamos o uso de recursos vegetais em uma região próxima a uma área de conservação. Os dados foram coletados através de entrevistas semi-estruturadas, incluindo listagens livres dos recursos vegetais conhecidos. As espécies foram identificadas através de coletas botânicas e de observações de campo. Foram entrevistados 58 habitantes; cultivo de banana, trabalho em fazendas de gado e extração de palmito são suas atividades econômicas principais. Foram mencionadas 248 etnoespécies, correspondendo a mais de 200 espécies botânicas. As plantas foram agrupadas em quatro habitats (A = floresta bem preservada; B = floresta perturbada, em estágios successionais avançados; C = ambientes recentemente perturbados; D = áreas cultivadas e quintais). Uma maior diversidade foi encontrada para o habitat A, seguido por C+D, e finalmente por áreas B; entretanto, é esperada uma riqueza maior de espécies para a área B quando comparada a C+D. Há poucas espécies comuns, e proporções comparáveis de espécies intermediárias e raras, para todos os habitats. As espécies comuns ocorrem em todos os tipos de habitats. O conhecimento local das plantas dos habitats bem preservados é mais diverso do que para plantas de outras áreas, sugerindo que a relação entre habitantes e a área de conservação é ainda intensa.Palavras-chave: Floresta Atlântica, diversidade, etnobotânica, conhecimento ecológico tradicional, áreas perturbadas ABSTRACT -(Ethnobotany of rural people from the boundaries of Carlos Botelho State Park, São Paulo State, Brazil). In this articlewe describe and analyze the use of plant resources in a region nearby a conservation area. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, in which we asked the interviewees to free list the plants known. Species cited were identified through collection of botanical samples, and field observations. Fifty-eight inhabitants were interviewed; banana farming, cattle ranching, and extracting palm hearts are their main economic activities. A total of 248 ethnospecies were mentioned, including over 200 botanical species. Plants were grouped into four habitats (A = well-preserved forest; B = disturbed forest in old successional stages; C = recently disturbed environments; D = cultivated areas and home gardens). Highest diversity is known for plants from A habitats, followed by C+D, and finally by B areas; however, a higher number of species is expected in B areas when compared to C+D. There is a small number of common species, and comparable proportions of intermediate and rare species, for all habitats. Common species occur in all types of habitats. Local knowledge of plants from well-preserved habitats is more diverse than for plants from other areas, suggesting that the relationship between inhabitants and the conservation area is still intense.

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Ethnobotany of rural people from the boundaries of Carlos Botelho State Park, São Paulo State, Brazil

2006

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“…This discovery supports the proposition that semantic domains are graded and constructed in accordance with affective responses. These data therefore suggest that ethnobiological domains are cognitively assembled according to culturally constituted values, beliefs, and feelings about living things (e.g., Nolan 2002;Nolan and Robbins 2001;Robbins and Nolan 1997).…”

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“…We used the software program ANTHROPAC 4.95 (Borgatti 1995) to compute the frequency of mention all items provided on the lists of liked and disliked animals. In addition, the cognitive salience of each life form domain was calculated using a technique designed for measuring salience in freelists (Robbins and Nolan 1997). The measure B ranges between an upper bound of 1, in which all members of a designated category of items appears first in a freelist, and a lower bound of 0, in which all other items are listed first.…”

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The Lovable, the Loathsome, and the Liminal: Emotionality in Ethnozoological Cognition

Nolan

Jones

Mcdougal

et al. 2006

Journal of Ethnobiology

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“…The free listing method in linguistics, anthropology, and psychology has been used largely to identify linguistic and cultural domains or how language reveals perception and categorical arrangements of information (Levinson, Majid, & Enfield, 2007;Quinlan, 2005;Robbins &Nolan, 1997;Sutrop, 2001). In free listing, participants list items or words within a particular topic or domain, such as, "Please list all Xs that you know" (Sutrop, 2001, p. 263).…”

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Investigating a Student-Driven Taxonomy for Library Website Design

Hulseberg¹,

Monson²

2011

Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship

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Libraries spend countless hours developing websites to connect users and resources. However, how much do we really know about what website terminology and features are meaningful to our patrons? And how can we best organize websites to facilitate access to resources? This article examines these questions by presenting a case study of a student-driven taxonomy for library website terminology, features, and organization. Findings suggest that librarians and students do not necessarily have diverging terminologies for websites. Students value simplicity, efficient searching, and research guidance, and librarians still have much to learn about students' conceptualization of the content behind web links.Libraries spend countless hours developing and maintaining websites to support our users' information needs and connect them to our resources. However, how much do we really know about what website terminology and features are meaningful to our patrons? And how can we best organize library websites to facilitate easy access to resources for research? These are questions that we continually ask ourselves at the Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library at Gustavus Adolphus College, a residential liberal arts college with a student body of approximately 2,500 undergraduate students.This article describes a case study conducted at our library to help us improve our website and elicit a student-driven taxonomy for library website terminology, features, and organization. Our operational definition of a taxonomic approach is one that specifically analyzes how students label, categorize, and arrange task-oriented information on a library website. In

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A Measure of Dichotomous Category Bias in Free Listing Tasks'

Cited by 17 publications

References 18 publications

Ethnobotany of rural people from the boundaries of Carlos Botelho State Park, São Paulo State, Brazil

Ethnobotany of rural people from the boundaries of Carlos Botelho State Park, São Paulo State, Brazil

The Lovable, the Loathsome, and the Liminal: Emotionality in Ethnozoological Cognition

Investigating a Student-Driven Taxonomy for Library Website Design

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